Thursday, 31 December 2015

2015: The best-of here at NOT PC

Just to remind you, readers, that your favourite blog started the
year looking like this:

Quite a change! With the new blog look and feel came new blog readers – more than double
what the blog enjoyed before. (Thank you all for dropping in.)So as 2015 rushes to a close, these were the posts that mostly drew your
attention each month.JAN

We started the year here at NOT PC the way we intended to carry on: pointing
out in this case that much of what is most commonly passed off as being “The
Wisdom of the Ancients” is neither very wise, nor all that ancient –
particularly all the favourite books of today’s western and mid-eastern
religionists.Wisdom of the Ancients…
And also:
To pretend everything that Islam is not evil is to share some portion of the
blame. Both blame and much more wretchedness exploded across 2015.“One of the best arguments against people who claim Islam
as a religion of war”?

FEB

ACT were in crisis again in February(aren't they every February), one narrowly averted this year by the politician
eventually named most commentators’ Politician of the Year. We first attacked
him for not supporting voluntary euthanasia … Act dead. Act accordingly
…to which he responded…Right of reply: David Seymour… and eventually, thankfully, recanted.

February of course is also when New Zealanders ritually rend their garments
over Te Tiriti—but we, just as ritually, argued there is nothing to be guilty
about in freeing slaves.It’s NZ’s own Emancipation Proclamation!

2015: The year Putin began more openly seeing what he could get away with,
while the west even more openly ignored the implications. We were onto it
early.The assassination of Boris Nemtsov

APRIL

Architecture Week, and with it a necessary clarification that not every old house is
worth preserving … and those that shouldn't be should be 'quarried from' to rebuild those that should.A villa is not a bungalow

Mostly unheralded, but organised Classical Liberalism died one-hundred years ago last
May. On that centenary I began answering a question that plagued it, and helped
it die: why is that in 1914 goods were so freely crossing borders, yet armies
still did. And what did that say for the great Liberal project of peace and free
trade?The day classical liberalism died

JUNE

For the first time in human history, we discovered that fewer than 10% of people
on the planet are now living in extreme poverty. Yet poverty campaigners don’t
even care to know how that happened.Instead of either celebrating or seeking
understanding the causes of this miracle, poverty campaigners instead keep
manufacturing more “poor.” Poverty? Only by redefinition—a con-trick that “has
led us to care far too much about inequality and not enough about rising
prosperity.”Poverty?

In June we all stumbled across the strange case of a white woman pretending
to be black. So I posted a cartoon.Still funny?

JULY

In July, the never-ending Greek politico-economic crisis demonstrated yet
again that “democratic fiscal policy appears to have an institutional problem
with regard to sustainable public finance”—in other words, when politicians act
like Santa Claus then voters will always try to vote themselves gifts.Acropolis Now?

It has a huge effect on the most talked-about local crisis, that in housing,
yet this is one primary cause barely talked about. Yet an August report
confirmed again that virtually all the rent subsidy paid to beneficiaries does
little more than go to subsidise higher rents – leaving landlords richer, house
prices higher, and beneficiaries and would-be home-owners as far behind the 8
ball as before.Landlord subsidies

SEPTEMBER

In September, a little boy’s body washed up on a Mediterranean beach, and
things were never the same again. Yet how many knew his true story? Or even
cared?The true story of Aylan Kurdi

In October, the Productivity Commission quietly suggested the government
should confiscate your home, or let the council acquire it, compulsorily.
Frighteningly, few – still! – have objected. Such is politics in NZ in
2015.Productivity Commission dumps on
land-owners

4 comments:

I have today awarded the Medallion of Quixote to Peter Cresswell as best NZ blog of 2015. [And other years for that matter]. This is no Quixotic award // it benefits the holder with even more courage and tenacity.For the award see here below //

cresswell ..the faggot who apparently thinks he's enlightened..but cannot invest to save himselfCopies others designsLoves Marxist Globalist Jew AgendasIs for open borders..but will not move to MexicoIs a tool of Faggot Perigees....and is clueless that he's just a useful idiot

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